Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum subglabratum

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath, usually on rocky sites. Ranges between Morton National Park inland from Conjola and Deua National Park inland from Moruya.

Notes

Shrub to more than 2 m tall. Bark rough, flaking in thin layers. Stems sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, usually 1.5-3.5 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, margins flat or slightly curved upwards, surfaces silky to almost hairless at maturity: tips blunt to pointed, the short point usually blunt; bases tapering to a short narrow rather flattened stalk. Flowers 10-15 mm in diameter, with 5 white petals, single or in pairs. Flowers Summer. Nuts shed early, 4-7 mm in diameter, stalk silky.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~subglabratum (accessed 22 January, 2021)

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 368, map 4-20